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This is a cover of It Has To Be This Way by Jamie Christopherson, Logan Mader and Jimmy Gnecco from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I have remade the track in the style of Shoji Meguro's rock battle tracks around the PS2 era of Shin Megami Tensei and Persona games, as if Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance released on the PS2 in the mid to late 2000s.
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It was very intimidating to cover this track at first. Not only because of its complexity, but also its legacy. This song is extremely beloved by way more people than just the fans of this game (let alone Metal Gear), and so I really wanted to do this track justice. There are quite a few guitar parts happening in the original track that had a bit of layering, so I didn’t have to change much in that regard. I did need to change up the drums a bit though. The original track is definitely a bit more metal in that department with an overabundance of kicks, so I toned things down to be a bit more Meguro. It was requested that I maintain the overall orchestral sound of the track, so I kept some strings and horns in there, whilst adding some Raidou-esque trumpets. The original track also had a bunch of electronic elements that leaned a little too much into dubstep for this style, so I replaced them with some dirty sounding arpeggiators ripped right out of DDS2. The vocals I extracted did have some strange quirks to them, but were perfectly usable. Just like the original track, I’ve kept them decently far back in the mix.
I’m a pretty damn big Metal Gear fan myself, having played through Metal Gear on MSX2 all the way up to Peace Walker (including Portable Ops!), but have never played MGR. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it over the past decade, especially when it exploded in popularity again a couple years ago. If Platinum Games is involved, it is (almost) always a damn good time, so I’ll have to get around to it.
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